“Criminals arrested for offences such as minor assaults, theft and fraud could escape prosecution in the biggest shake-up of charging guidelines for 20 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading will be able to clamp down on rogue companies by suspending or revoking their consumer credit licences with immediate effect under new legislation announced by the government.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers for the BBC are considering making a formal appeal against a court order that has banned the corporation from showing a dramatised film about the experiences of rioters who took part in last summer’s disorder.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“John Pusey and his wife Cherry spent 10 years trying to stop passing motorists using the bottom of their garden as a public convenience. But while the high court agreed it was annoying – the judges ruled the ‘comfort breaks’ did not amount to a ‘nuisance.’ They rejected the couple’s claim to close down the lay-by by the side of the road, leaving them with a six figure legal bill.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“PC Simon Harwood has a disciplinary record littered with complaints of aggressive behaviour and misconduct and once admitted being sent into ‘red mist mode’, it can be disclosed today.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A trial of eight men accused of murder during the Birmingham riots almost collapsed when a judge declared a police officer had ‘invented a story.’ ”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An NHS trust has been fined £150,000 and told to pay £326,345 costs over the killing of a female care worker at a residential home in Bedfordshire.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police officer Simon Harwood was today cleared of killing newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London in 2009. Concerns about the Pc’s alleged previous ‘heavy handed policing’ were only disclosed after acquittal.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An unusually large number of senior judges are due to retire in the next year or so. Who might replace them?”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legal insurance and conditional and fixed-fee arrangements aren’t serving people’s best interests.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman from Oldham has been found guilty of helping her husband plan a terrorist attack in an attempt to carry out ‘jihad at home’.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Jeremy Bamber, who murdered five members of his family, have been granted an appeal by the Grand Chamber of Europe’s human rights court.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court
The Health and Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council [2012] UKSC 34 (18 July 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Horn & Ors v Commercial Acceptances Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 958 (19 July 2012)
Maidment v Attwood & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 998 (19 July 2012)
L-B (Children) [2012] EWCA Civ 984 (18 July 2012)
Arif v Zar & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 986 (18 July 2012)
Berent v Family Mosaic Housing & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 961 (18 July 2012)
Independent Safeguarding Authority v SB & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 977 (18 July 2012)
Selwood v Durham County Council & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 979 (18th July 2012)
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead v Smith [2012] EWCA Civ 997 (18 July 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Hakemi & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1967 (Admin) (19 July 2012)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AY [2012] EWHC 2054 (Admin) (19 July 2012)
Preston City Council v Oyston Angel Charity [2012] EWHC 2005 (Admin) (19 July 2012)
Bass & Anor v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2012] EWHC 2012 (Admin) (18 July 2012)
Hunt v North Somerset Council [2012] EWHC 1928 (Admin) (18 July 2012)
HM Attorney General v Associated Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 2029 (Admin) (18 July 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
DGM Commodities Corp v Sea Metropolitan SA [2012] EWHC 1984 (Comm) (18 July 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Walter Lilly & Company Ltd v MacKay & Anor [2012] EWHC 1972 (TCC) (17 July 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Computer hacker Gary McKinnon ‘has no choice’ but to refuse a medical test to see if he is fit to be extradited to the US, his mother has said.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eight men have been found not guilty of the murder of three men during last summer’s riots in Birmingham.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Shergill and others v Khaira and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 983; [2012] WLR (D) 214
“The courts will abstain from adjudicating on the truth, merits or sincerity of differences in religious doctrine or belief and on the correctness or accuracy of religious practice, custom or tradition.”
WLR daily, 17th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“If a statement of an immigration policy was flexible and stated that an immigration rule relating to leave to enter and remain in the United Kingdom might, depending on the circumstances of each case, be relaxed if certain conditions were satisfied, the statement itself was not an immigration rule and therefore the Secretary of State was not required to lay it before Parliament in accordance with section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A local planning authority, when considering under section 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 whether to revoke a planning permission it had previously granted, was entitled to have regard to the cost of the compensation it would have to pay to the developer out of public funds should it decide to revoke.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Where the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against sentence at a time by which, subsequent to the original passing of sentence, the law had changed in relation to release on licence, it was not the case that reliance could be placed on the particularities of such date in order to claim that it was the later provisions which governed matters relating to release.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Any requirement which, if not satisfied, would lead to an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom being refused, was a rule ‘as to the practice to be followed’ in the administration of the Immigration Act 1971 and therefore had to be laid before Parliament in accordance with section 3(2) of the Act.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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